Vulgar words in Phineas Finn - The Irish Member (Page 1)

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ass x 9
damn x 2
make love x 6
            

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He had never made love to her, nor could he discover that it was possible for him to do so.

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What an ass he had been in supposing that she cared for him!

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I, poor, penniless, plain simple fool that I am, have been ass enough to love you, Lady Laura Standish; and I brought you up here to-day to ask you to share with me-my nothingness.

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"I have simply been the greatest idiot, the greatest coward, the most awkward ass that ever lived!"

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"Mr. Monk," said Phineas, "I have made an ass of myself so thoroughly, that there will at any rate be this good result, that I shall never make an ass of myself again after the same fashion."

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But do not suppose that you have made an ass of yourself,-that is, in any special degree.

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"Damn the old gentleman," said Phineas in his wrath;-and the maid-servant heard him say so.

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And, moreover, there was something to be done in the world beyond making love and being merry.

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Damn it, I say; what's the good of a brotherhood if it ain't to be brotherhood?"

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"I have to think whether I have courage enough to refuse to make myself an ass."

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"Ass!" she exclaimed.

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"Lord Fawn!" he said, "the greatest ass in all London!

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CHAPTER XLVI The Mousetrap Phineas had certainly no desire to make love by an ambassador,-at second-hand.

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In the first place, there was that in her manner which made him sure that were he to do so, he would ask in vain; and then he felt that she was placing a special confidence in him, against which he would commit a sin were he to use her present intimacy with him for the purposes of making love.

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"I have made such an ass of myself."

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He would have liked to have shot grouse at Loughlinter, or pheasants at Saulsby, or to have hunted down at Willingford,-or better still, to have made love to Violet Effingham wherever Violet Effingham might have placed herself.

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There was to be an early dinner out in tents at five; and after dinner men and women were to walk about, or dance, or make love-or hay, as suited them.

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